Ooh I'm all for the horror in October! Also, same with April and humor, and then presumably something Christmas or holiday related in December? I also really enjoy the MR author month. I think we should narrow Nonfiction down, like to History.

Contemporary was really tough, so I think we should nix that one. Maybe for something like reading something off the bestseller list (although that would make the nomination process boring).

I think whomever nominates the winning book for the month should be responsible for posting discussion questions of some sort on a weekly basis, to help keep the discussion interesting. The few times I managed to read the monthly book, I would check the thread and there didn't seem to be much activity. One or two weekly 'discussion' questions might help keep the conversation active and interesting.

Maybe for something like reading something off the bestseller list (although that would make the nomination process boring).

Bestseller might be a good idea. Would it have to be a current best seller? We could also do other lists too... like Hugo nominees or well, there's got to be other writing awards.

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Originally Posted by ficbot

I think whomever nominates the winning book for the month should be responsible for posting discussion questions of some sort on a weekly basis, to help keep the discussion interesting.

That is an interesting idea... but I wonder if it would also discourage people from nominating a book. I think the more casual we make this the more people will play along. I also think the more people we have involved the more traffic the discussion threads will get. As you say, some have been pretty thin while others were quite busy.

Please can we NOT have "contemporary fiction" again? It's too restrictive a category, and pretty much all the books which ended up getting nominated for it this time were NOT in the category at all (SF is NOT contemporary fiction).

Also, if "MobileRead Author" means "a living author who has personally posted one of their books to MR", don't you think that too is extremely restrictive?